News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Memories Can Be Injected and Survive Amputation and Metam... by r_singh on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @12:42AM (#21822164)
Interesting... any chance you have a link of that lecture or a story on it?
Re:Memories Can Be Injected and Survive Amputation and Metam... by wildduck on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @01:03AM (#21822267)
Re:Memories Can Be Injected and Survive Amputation and Metam... by duskwuff on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @01:38AM (#21822414)
Note, however: While this web site has "journal" in its title, it is not a scientific publication. Namah describes itself as "The Journal of Integral Health" -- it is published by a branch of a yogic spiritual community.

This doesn't necessarily mean that the anecdotes described there are false, but I'd be inclined to take them with a grain of salt.

Re:Memories Can Be Injected and Survive Amputation and Metam... by thinkingemote on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @03:52AM (#21823050)
A grain of salt, pepper and herbs and spices
Re:Memories Can Be Injected and Survive Amputation and Metam... by Cougher on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @04:26AM (#21823217)
It ain't KFC without MSG!
Re:Memories Can Be Injected and Survive Amputation and Metam... by wildduck on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @01:01AM (#21822258)
There are many cases of people who get organ transplant inherit the memory of the donor. I have heard in more than one places or another. A simple search on the web will yield this:

Here is a link: https://www.medicaldaily.com/can-organ-transplant-change-rec...

We still don't know squats about how memory are stored. And cases like that can be a valid argument for memory and consciousness being a non-local phenomenon. Kinda like how client-server model in CS. ;-) . Are our brain just a browser?

Re:Memories Can Be Injected and Survive Amputation and Metam... by AllegedAlec on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @02:34AM (#21822692)
> We still don't know squats about how memory are stored.

Yeah, but not in the kidneys or the liver. Get back to us when you find sources from peer-reviewed journals.

Re:Memories Can Be Injected and Survive Amputation and Metam... by im3w1l on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @04:12AM (#21823151)
Memories in the conventional sense are stored in the brain.

By stretching the definition of memory, you can get to the conclusion that the whole body remembers. Scientists have found that the neurons in the spine learn when practicing motor tasks. The immune system remembers pathogens. Hormonal glands remember concentrations of relevant hormones by growing / shrinking. Muscles (including the heart) remember exercise by growing. If you play the guitar your fingertips harden, they "remember" the stress and toughen up in anticipation. And every single cell will learn by epigenetic changes. Maybe you could say that diabetes type 2 happens because the cells learn to respond less to insulin.

Re:Memories Can Be Injected and Survive Amputation and Metam... by SketchySeaBeast on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @10:22AM (#21825731)
Get back to me when someone gets an arm amputated and forgets math.
Re:Memories Can Be Injected and Survive Amputation and Metam... by imvetri on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @02:25AM (#21822652)
Reading more and more will never get us anywhere. What can we do with what we know now is worth sharing.